[Tim doesn't talk about his past much. Not that Jay really blames him, now that the whole 'might be the first one to have seen it' thing is out of the way.]
[Jay knows Tim's got issues. Jay knows, probably better than anyone else at this point, what those issues are. He's seen them scrawled across yellowed forms, always distant, always clinical, usually in terminology Jay had to look up.]
[But then little things like this come up. How people didn't celebrate this stuff. The way Jay suspects he's still never seen Star Wars or Jurassic Park or Ghostbusters or any of it. The way the tiny glances Jay's gotten into his music taste seem entirely incomprehensible.]
[Jay's not fully sure how to wrap his head around it.]
[So he shrugs.]
Kinda overrated, to be honest.
[He stares at the floor, poking at the slice on his plate. He only remembers fragments, sensory details. The overwhelming sound of it. The way he could sit motionless, watching the balloons bob and weave until suddenly he couldn't, because someone gripped his shoulder and told him he should be out playing with his friends.]
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[Jay knows Tim's got issues. Jay knows, probably better than anyone else at this point, what those issues are. He's seen them scrawled across yellowed forms, always distant, always clinical, usually in terminology Jay had to look up.]
[But then little things like this come up. How people didn't celebrate this stuff. The way Jay suspects he's still never seen Star Wars or Jurassic Park or Ghostbusters or any of it. The way the tiny glances Jay's gotten into his music taste seem entirely incomprehensible.]
[Jay's not fully sure how to wrap his head around it.]
[So he shrugs.]
Kinda overrated, to be honest.
[He stares at the floor, poking at the slice on his plate. He only remembers fragments, sensory details. The overwhelming sound of it. The way he could sit motionless, watching the balloons bob and weave until suddenly he couldn't, because someone gripped his shoulder and told him he should be out playing with his friends.]
Cake's good, though.